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during lunch. He had this softer side too
though -  he was the class clown, always making people smile,
and his own smile was something that melted many hearts. He had a
reputation, even at thirteen, for sleeping with girls and not
looking at them the next day. Girls just flocked to him, and he
loved every minute of it.
    When they were both fourteen, Dee and her group of
girlfriends became friends with Trey and his crew. The two groups
would hang out together during break and lunchtime, laughing and
joking, and smoking a sneaky blunt. It was clear even then Dee
and Trey got on well together; they were always flirting and play
fighting, and there was an instant aura of jealousy among the year
group. Trey didn’t instantly drop his player ways though, and he
found out the hard way not to mess with Dee when she found him
texting other girls after they’d slept together. When she punched
him in the nose in front of half the school, she definitely made
her point. She wasn’t one to mess with. Unfortunately, Trey wasn’t
a changed man for long.
    At
seventeen, the two of them left school early with no
qualifications. It wasn’t exactly something out of the ordinary in
that school. It was a joint decision to leave, and though Dee would
never like to think she was persuaded into anything she didn’t want
to do, she did wonder if it was the right move, but she trusted him
when he said things would work out. Trey started selling weed at
sixteen and sometimes Dee helped. By the time they were seventeen,
Dee had a reputation in their area for selling the best quality in
the neighbourhood, and her looks didn’t hurt either.
    Living a
life selling weed worked out for them for a while. They got their
own place together a few streets away from their parents, and Dee
even got some modelling work. It didn’t pay great but it was money,
and that was what mattered. Everything seemed fine, before Trey
started selling harder stuff. He began taking some of it too. His
lifestyle started to completely change; it was like she could see
him changing in front of her eyes. His cheeky smile had gone, and
he was staying out all night, coming in smelling of perfume and
liquor. One night she waited up for him and when he finally
stumbled in the door, he was mad that she’d waited up; he thought
she was ‘trying to catch him out.’ When she saw the red lipstick on
his collar, she launched at him, but his reflexes kicked in and she
was thrown across the room. She hit her face on the
wall.
    It was
at a modelling shoot that Dee heard about a casting call for a girl
for a hip hop video. She’d often watched those girls and thought
she could do a better job, but she never knew how to approach
something like that. When she heard the name of the rapper it was
for, she felt ridiculous for even thinking about it, but she was
encouraged by some other models who were going to it. The next day,
she was queuing outside the casting building. When the video came
on TV with Dee as the main lady, people in her neighbourhood went
crazy. People had more respect for her than they had before, and
this time not just as their local dope girl. But while everybody
else raved about the video, Trey acted jealous. He didn’t like the
fact that men were ogling her on TV, or the fact that she had a sex
scene with a well known rapper. As staged as it was, it felt real
to him. He knew he couldn’t compare to some hip hop icon. When Dee
got her pay check from the job, he blew it all.
    When Dee
found out she was pregnant it was a shock to the system for the
both of them. How were they going to afford it? How would they look
after it? They didn’t know anything about babies. They both walked
on eggshells at first, not sure what to say or how to feel, worried
about upsetting the other, but when they both went to the first
baby scan, and heard how it was healthy, things changed. Trey was
suddenly becoming the old Trey, the one she knew from school. He
treated her better, he stayed